Laura is an extremely intuitive and articulate organizational development expert. She has the unique ability to identify and eliminate obstacles to positive change. Her extensive expertise in the alternative energy sector is an invaluable resource to any business leader intent on developing a sustainable business.
Laura's work is a brilliant combination of wisdom, intuition, and practical business knowledge. Positive change is inevitable, and will show up quickly in your life, if you choose to work with VIA Associates.
In 15 years of providing and using various consulting, coaching, and professional development services, I’ve found Laura to be in the top 1% of any resource I know of.
Laura's coaching and consulting work was instrumental to my early success in building a solid foundation for my consulting firm. She is a gifted listener and knows how to inspire her clients along a positive path. Her years of expertise are now wrapped into a new book that will no doubt help many more people take their career or their business to the next level.
Laura Finestone is unique. As a facilitator and a coach, she has the ability to get inside what's really going on and bring it to the surface. If you are looking to get to the “crux” of an issue, Laura is a pro. The integration of the personal and professional aspects of an organization define her style and approach. She is a master at helping one understand and transcend the most complex riddles. The results are compelling.
Working with Laura has changed the culture at Sun Light and Power Company. By following her sage advice and practical process, we are on track to have a series of record sales years. More importantly, we are all living our vision through our work.
The result of working withLaura Finestone Consulting has been no less than phenomenal. With your help, we achieved our goal and won exclusive management control of a critical NASA program. Laura focused our diverse group of over 300 people into a unified force, producing results that caused NASA to appoint us to lead a program that had previously been considered totally unrealistic.”
I highly recommend Laura Finestone Consulting to anyone who is truly serious about following their dream, making a difference and creating success in their business. Laura helped us shift into a socially and environmentally responsible company. Not only did our sales increase, but our marketing and management are streamlined and effective and working conditions are more satisfying.
When I began working with Laura the purpose was to sort out a lot of my life issues. In a very short time we have progressed to working with my potential, my skills, talents, and my dreams. I am actively creating my present and my future in ways that I have attempted to accomplish my whole adult life! I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Laura because she has been an excellent mirror for me as a whole person, not simply as an entrepreneur. Her ability to get to the heart of me has been the key to my success and my sense of self-fulfillment!”
Working with Laura, I have come to realize that my financial potential was far greater than I had realized, and I have more than tripled my monthly income. More importantly, Laura’s program has provided me with the tools to make the kind of transformative changes in myself that produce results in all areas of my life.
Before signing up with Laura, I was tired of my work and ready to quit and try a new career. Laura Finestone gave me fresh energy for creative new directions in my work, building on what I have already accomplished."
Laura’s Vision in Action programs have a way of turning your work into play. Transforming myself on the inside became expanding my business on the outside and my business became a reflection of who I am. I realized that building my business was an internal job. Besides the transformative work of Via Associates, I learned the practical skills of running a small business. To top it off, I formulated a vision and mission for the business that will nurture and support me for years to come. Laura shows a level of excellence in her work that shines through in everything she does.
I had wanted to write scholarly books ever since I learned to read; also, spiritual development is a core part of my life, and making a difference to the working lives of people is what gives my life meaning. Working with Laura, I found a way to integrate these into my vision, and began taking risks that I had not dared to speak of. Now, to my amazement, after only nine months, elements of the dream are beginning to slot into place!
This month marks a year since your Co-op Board embarked on a strategic planning process that started with feedback from members at our semi-annual members meeting, involved almost a year of weekly meetings with board and staff, and ended with completed strategic plan and business plan . We wish to express our deepest thanks to our consultant and business coach Laura Finestone. She brought us together, taught us so much, and met and exceeded any expectations we had of this process when we began our journey with her last summer.
The Vision in Action Workshop enabled me to identify and finally break through the invisible boundaries that held me back from achieving all that I said I wanted. Now I have a completely different vision of what is possible in my life — and I'm going after it with a passion!
Thank you, Laura!
The team had such a great time with you and we are already implementing so many of the strategies you provided us with! Solutions and breakthroughs abound! Your guidance was perfect. I look forward to much more as our projects are implemented.
I enjoyed working with Laura. We were able to quickly hone in on specific career development issues and implement them. When my employment ended at one company I was ready to jump into the next position which I hold to this day. I thought our sessions were productive, inspirational and motivational.
Laura’s coaching really helped me to understand how to unlock new parts of my potential. Until this point, I had managed myself by talent alone, and I didn’t understand how to integrate skills into my process, which was difficult. These sessions helped me understand how to integrate and utilize skills I didn’t know or couldn’t understand into my talent to push past my initial limits into a whole new territory. These sessions have changed how the way I work and how I will live my life.
Laura's coaching and consulting work was instrumental to my early success in building a solid foundation for my consulting firm. She is a gifted listener and knows how to inspire her clients along a positive path. Her years of expertise are now wrapped into a new book that will no doubt help many more people take their career or their business to the next level.